Thing 2

As has been so often mentioned in the things we've read for Twitter, it seems to be a program that grows on you. It's also a program in which you can easily lose yourself as you chain from one site to the next, looking at postings and finding new people to follow.

On a personal level, I'm more likely (at this point, at least!) to text message my friends and family. Those who would be likely to use Twitter would have the phone access to text. The others wouldn't be online anyway.

Professionally, I see the benefit of asking for and providing help/suggestions and/or a heads up to fellow searchers. This could be very useful if I happened to be looking for specific information. Having access to all these people really could prevent re-invention! The difficulty is having social networking sites blocked at school. It could be useful, I suppose, to contact parents with some immediacy. However, a phone call could be just as quick, especially since there is no blocking.

Pedagogically, it would be interesting to follow new trends in my fields (speech path and clinical psych), without incurring the cost of multiple journals and periodicals. Save trees, and all that.

As for fun, who wouldn't follow Ashton Kucher?! LOL